Wang Weizhong, Governor of Guangdong Province: Guangdong is the first choice and preferred place for foreign-funded enterprises to invest.

　　China News Service, March 29th: The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 29th on "unswervingly promoting high-quality development efforts in Guangdong and taking the forefront in promoting Chinese-style modernization." Wang Weizhong, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and governor, said at the meeting that from January to February this year, 2,982 new foreign-funded enterprises were established in Guangdong, an increase of 38.1%, which fully demonstrates that Guangdong is the first choice and preferred place for foreign-funded enterprises to invest.

　　At the meeting, a reporter asked: Guangdong is a major province for foreign investment and trade and plays an important role in China's opening up process. As a pioneer province, what measures will Guangdong take to continue to deepen international cooperation with Africa, attract foreign investment, and promote foreign trade development?

　　In this regard, Wang Weizhong said that Guangdong is a major foreign trade province. Guangdong Province’s foreign trade dependence is 64%, Dongguan’s foreign trade dependence is 124%, and Shenzhen is 113%. Foreign trade and foreign investment play an important role in the development of Guangdong. Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong has taken the lead in developing the "three to one supplement" processing trade, actively introduced foreign investment, advanced technology and management experience, and quickly integrated into the international division of labor system. In just over 40 years, it has developed from a relatively backward agricultural province to a national One of the provinces with the most active economy and the highest degree of openness. Guangdong's foreign trade import and export reached 8.3 trillion yuan last year, and the cumulative actual utilization of foreign investment exceeded 578 billion US dollars, accounting for 1/5 of the country's total. The utilization of foreign investment has stabilized at more than 20 billion US dollars for nine consecutive years. 350 of the world's top 500 companies are in Guangdong. layout.

　　Wang Weizhong pointed out that in recent years, facing the complex and severe external environment, Guangdong has resolutely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, made great efforts to grasp foreign investment and foreign trade, and introduced a series of policies to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and promote the import, export and practical utilization of foreign trade. The scale and share of foreign investment have remained stable. Especially last year, it withstood pressure from all aspects and achieved 8.3 trillion yuan, bucking the trend and growing by 0.3%. Among them, cross-border e-commerce import and export reached 843.3 billion yuan last year, an increase of 25.2%, accounting for about 40% of the country. Relying on Guangdong's complete industrial supporting facilities, superior business environment, and huge market potential, it has attracted investments of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars from BASF, ExxonMobil, CNOOC and Shell in recent years. The third phase of CNOOC and Shell started construction last year. Construction, ExxonMobil's first phase will be put into operation by the end of this year, and the BASF integrated project will be completed next year. Many foreign-funded enterprises have set up R&D centers in Guangdong. Guangdong has held the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Global Investment Promotion Conference for two consecutive years, and has also gone overseas to attract investment. Last year, it held the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area European Economic and Trade Cooperation and Exchange Conference in Germany, which achieved good results. In the past two years, a total of 1,700 projects have been signed at the investment conference, with a total amount of 4.7 trillion yuan. From January to February this year, 2,982 new foreign-funded enterprises were established in Guangdong, an increase of 38.1%, which fully demonstrates that Guangdong is the first choice and preferred place for foreign-funded enterprises to invest.

　　Wang Weizhong emphasized that in the next step, Guangdong will unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, build a "five-foreign linkage" combination of foreign trade, foreign investment, outsourcing, foreign economics, and foreign intelligence, and fully support the development of foreign trade and foreign investment.

　　The first is to promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of foreign trade. We will introduce policies to stabilize foreign trade and promote growth, expand trade in intermediate goods, cultivate more new export growth points such as the "Three New Products", stabilize and enhance processing trade, promote the development of new foreign trade formats, and consolidate and expand diversified international markets. Africa is an important trading partner of Guangdong. Last year, Guangdong's total import and export to Africa exceeded 270 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9%, accounting for 13.7% of China-Africa trade. Mobile phones from Shenzhen, furniture from Foshan, and lamps from Zhongshan are all popular among African friends.

　　The second is to accelerate the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Promote domestic and foreign trade products of the same line, same standard and same quality, help enterprises smoothly switch between domestic and international markets, and let more Guangdong's innovative technologies, high-quality products, and brand services sell well and serve the country.

　　The third is to create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment, promote institutional opening up, fully implement the negative list for foreign investment access, and implement service mechanisms for major foreign investment projects such as "through train" and "one-stop" to achieve more efficient and high-quality services. Create the "Invest in Guangdong" brand with our services. The 135th Canton Fair will be held next month, which is "China's No. 1 Exhibition". We sincerely welcome merchants and friends from home and abroad to participate in the exhibition in Guangzhou to achieve win-win cooperation.